Apple Business

“If I had known what would happen when we tried this we would have skipped the process entirely.”

“30 days later they canceled the ABM company account and deleted all the associated users along with the Apple ID”

“This is the kind of failure mode that makes people nervous about tightly coupled identity + device management”

“Apple's clean separation model only really works if you start that way from day one”

“30 days later they canceled the ABM company account and deleted all the associated users”

“Apple's whole shtick is to take away most of your choices so that they can focus on the limited number of things they still allow you to do.”

“the management looks very simple and flawless, all necessary things are covered”

“failed because Apple was not able to match it against DUNS. It took months of support to get it done.”

“it was an endless runaround with terrible signup nterfaces and having to call dumb flunkies”

“enterprise IT folks always point out the many ways that it doesn’t fit in with their enterprise IT ways”

“This is a very aggressive and opportunistic move.”

“I also organised this process at work, and it went rather well”

“If so this is insane value compared to everything else.”

“The statement that Apple has been supporting businesses for decades is just the most self-serving bunch of crap.”

“The level of configurability in AB is significantly less than what is available in established platforms”

“The big news here is the MDM, for free!”

“We have saved thousands of $$ so far and stand to save a lot more!”

“This announcement is pretty sad. If you're wondering why Apple is an IT department nightmare, this announcement is more of a confession.”

“missing programmable documents (Microsoft) or hooks to use AI (Google)”

“not sure if I would bet on this staying around”

“why would any business with an IT department choose this over an in-house solution”

“I never managed to get in. My account is good enough to take my money for other things but somehow I can't manage to onboard into the damn thing”

“the Business Manager integration route into MDM”

“my experience doing this process for a ~130 person org last year was pretty painless”

“I gave up when it wanted a Dun and Bradstreet number (whoever they are) and the website to get one didn't work.”

“Apple would be near the top of my list of companies incapable of building software that will do this.”

“It would be great if you could get correct invoice and pay price without VAT in EU”

“you either can't accumulate any personal data on the device, or you need to submit all of your personal data to your employer's Apple Account”

“I also had a negative experience with it, so we didn't use it and everyone just uses their personal apple IDs”

“As far as identifying a bug in the software and getting it fixed, or requesting a feature, you run into a brick wall.”

“This feels very much like yet another half-hearted Apple initiative.”

“Did you know that your employees will be forbidden from downloading from the App store once you launched that migration?”

“When Apple vertically integrates it works for them.”

“Less stuff to go wrong. One point of contact for support.”

“doesn't work in Firefox, it redirects you to https://business.apple.com/abm_unsupported_browser”

“599$ serviceable MacBooks, easy to use MDM, Cloud, Email and Calendar and flat-fee AppleCare all baked in?”

“It's kinda crazy it took Apple this long to make this.”

“Anybody getting involved with this with Apple will deserve everything thats coming their way”

“they are now directly selling the attention of their device consumers to their business customers”

“it’s just lacking a few critical features”